Apple has just pushed out its much-anticipated suite of racially diverse emojis with its new iOS 8.3. Users of the adorable icons have been waiting for the wide release since a proposal was submitted last November.

The new keyboard features an updated set of 300 more symbols that users can choose to communicate with in lieu of words. The updates became available to developers in February during a "beta" testing period.

Among the new emojis: gadgets like the Apple Watch and iPhone 6, representation of same-sex families and 32 new flags.

The feature causing the biggest stir, of course, is a new option that lets users hold down on some emojis and choose from up to six skin tones. The "skin tone modifier" appears to be a new feature to most of the symbols that look like humans.

"These characters are based on the six tones of the Fitzpatrick scale, a recognized standard for dermatology. The exact shades may vary between implementations," according to a proposal from the Unicode Consortium, the organization that normalizes computer language and is responsible for emojis.

(Don't know how to access your emojis? It's easy: On your iPhone, go to Settings, General, Keyboards, Add New Keyboard and add Emoji. Then, when you go to your keyboard to type a text, tap the little globe in the left corner. Voila!)